A study published this month in RAS Techniques and Instruments, led by Mark Hollands of Warwick University, reports that white dwarf stars can display unexpected colors such as green and pink, rather than the standard red-to-blue spectrum typical of most stars. Researchers attribute this to trace elements like sodium, calcium or carbon interacting with dense helium in the star's atmosphere as it cools, absorbing specific wavelengths of light.
cnet.com
· 2026-10-18
Military retirement checks and VA disability benefits will increase by 3.6% effective December 1, matching the latest cost-of-living adjustment. Stars and Stripes reports veterans will likely not see the higher payments until December 31 or early January 2027 due to processing timing.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-15
Apple TV has released the second season of its docuseries 'Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars,' hosted by Jesse Burgess and executive-produced by Gordon Ramsay and Studio Ramsay Global. The eight-episode season follows 16 restaurants across Europe, the US and Brazil as they pursue, defend or reclaim Michelin stars, with two episodes out now and new installments arriving weekly through November 6.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-09-25
A programmer released Stars!VM, a self-contained tool that emulates an 80286 processor and bridges Win16 calls to Win32, letting the 1995 4X strategy game Stars! run natively on modern 64-bit Windows without DOSBox, Wine, or retro hardware. The signed GitHub release embeds a compressed copy of the original 16-bit executable, so the single file runs out of the box with added 4K scaling and a modern file picker.
nullprogram.com
· 2026-09-18
Apple TV has unveiled trailers for two upcoming titles: the second season of culinary docuseries 'Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars,' premiering September 25, and the awards-focused drama 'Tenzing,' directed by Jennifer Peedom and starring Tom Hiddleston and Willem Dafoe. 'Tenzing' opens in select theaters October 9 before streaming on Apple TV starting October 16.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-09-17
Researchers built a high-resolution dark-matter N-body simulation, seeded with Planck cosmological parameters, tracking halo mergers from redshift 35 to 7.5 using ROCKSTAR and CONSISTENT-TREES tools. They layered a semi-analytic galaxy-formation model onto this framework to simulate gas cooling, star formation, supernova feedback and radiation, showing that overmassive black holes and compact 'little red dot' galaxies emerge naturally from these early-universe conditions without requiring exotic physics.
nature.com
· 2026-09-16
After five years of development, Pistol Shrimp Games has launched a free public demo of Free Stars: Children of Infinity, the sequel to The Ur-Quan Masters made by that game's original creators. The demo focuses solely on the melee combat mode, letting players choose from 38 ships—including nearly all classic Ur-Quan Masters vessels plus new additions—for head-to-head arcade battles. It's available now on Steam and GOG for Windows, Mac, and Linux, with console versions still to come.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-08
Ridley Scott is releasing a post-apocalyptic survival film called 'The Dog Stars,' adapted from Peter Heller's novel about life after a devastating flu pandemic. At the same time, he's developing a new take on 'Treasure Island' starring Hugh Jackman and considering turning one of his earlier films into a musical, though he won't say which one.
entertainment.slashdot.org
· 2026-08-29
Rockstar's extended GTA 6 preview shows a returning six-star Wanted level, higher than GTA V's five-star cap, appearing briefly during a police chase scene. The footage also introduces a Criminal Profile system, similar in spirit to Red Dead Redemption 2's Honor mechanic, which reportedly weighs the context of a player's crimes rather than treating all violence equally. Rockstar North's Rob Nelson confirmed to IGN that repeated player behavior can influence how NPCs and the story respond over time.
engadget.com
· 2026-08-28
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